Rio 2016: the handball arena set to host events during the Rio Olympics next month is designed to be taken down and rebuilt as schools around the city (+ slideshow).
Local studio Lopes, Santos & Ferreira Gomes worked with UK firm AndArchitects to create the 12,000-seat Future Arena.

The box-shaped stadium is enveloped by rainscreens, which are made from horizontal wooden slats and punctured by letterbox-like openings.
The facades don't come all the way to the ground, revealing concrete ramps and staircases that provide access into the venue.

Inside, seats are brightly coloured in the games' chosen hues of green, yellow, orange and red.
Once the Paralympic games finishes in September, it will be dismantled and turned into facilities for more than 2,000 schoolchildren.
"The brief for the handball arena was to build something that would contribute to the city of Rio beyond the 2016 Olympic Games," said AndArchitects, which helped create six temporary buildings for the last games in London.
"A first for the Olympics, the venue will make use of an innovative technique called 'nomadic architecture', thus ensuring that even a temporary structure can leave a lasting legacy."

Sections of the building will be form the basic structural elements for four state schools, each accommodating around 500 pupils. Three will be built in Barra da Tijuca and one in Maracanã.

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